Overturning Roe Didn’t Just Cut Off Access. It Sabotaged Science, Too.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/overturning-roe-didnt-just-cut-off-access-it-sabotaged-science-too/

Petty Politics Sabotages Science. Details at 11.

206 points · 8 comments · view on lemmy.world

8 Comments

downpunxx@fedia.io · 35 pts · 2y (1 reply)

there's nothing "petty" about removing a woman's body autonomy, it's draconian

MHSJenkins@infosec.pub · 26 pts · 2y

The motives and politics are absolutely petty. The results are an ongoing nightmare.

Stern@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Now lets get pi equal to 3.2 like God and Indiana intended.

MHSJenkins@infosec.pub · 11 pts · 2y

"Imaginary numbers"? Sounds like that DC fuzzy math . . .

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

never became law due to the intervention of C. A. Waldo, a professor at Purdue University, who happened to be present in the legislature on the day it went up for a vote.

Ah, the good (not really, but bear with me) old days where even the crazies would listen to experts..

Also, this is brilliant:

the Speaker accepted another member's recommendation to refer the bill to the Committee on Swamplands, where the bill could "find a deserved grave"

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y (2 replies)

System works as designed.

MHSJenkins@infosec.pub · 11 pts · 2y

Everything is going according to plan.

dactylotheca@suppo.fi · 7 pts · 2y

"The purpose of a system is what it does."